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File photo of Ranil Wickremesinghe during an interview in Colombo

CNN Exclusive: Sri Lanka’s acting President says previous government was ‘covering up facts’ about financial crisis

CNN By Will Ripley, Iqbal Athas, Kunal Sehgal and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. Former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government did not tell the truth, that Sri Lanka was “bankrupt” and “needed to go to the International

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Jupiter

Webb telescope shows off Jupiter in new image

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope’s first stunning images of the distant universe have been followed up by something a little closer to home. Data collected during the telescope’s commissioning period, before its science operations officially started on July 12, have been released on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s website. The publicly

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Wanda Palmer identified her brother as her attacker after spending two years in a coma

A West Virginia woman woke up from two-year coma — and identified her brother as the attacker who nearly killed her, police say

CNN, WCHS, WSAZ By Artemis Moshtaghian and Benjamin Schiller, CNN A West Virginia woman has awoken from a two-year coma and identified her brother as her attacker, according to police. Wanda Palmer, 51, accused her brother of attacking her at her residence near Cottageville, West Virginia, in June 2020. Police said that Palmer was “attacked,

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File photo of Ranil Wickremesinghe during an interview in Colombo

CNN Exclusive: Sri Lanka’s acting President says previous government was ‘covering up facts’ about financial crisis

By Will Ripley, Iqbal Athas, Kunal Sehgal and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. Former leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government did not tell the truth, that Sri Lanka was “bankrupt” and “needed to go to the International Monetary

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz sits at the defense table during the penalty phase of his trial

Parkland school shooter was ‘cold, calculative, manipulative and deadly,’ prosecutors say in death penalty trial

By Eric Levenson and Dakin Andone, CNN The gunman who killed 14 students and three adults at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018 was “cold, calculative, manipulative and deadly” in carrying out his attack, prosecutor Michael Satz said Monday in a Broward County courtroom. Three days before the shooting, Nikolas Cruz looked into his

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed two important figures in his government

Zelensky suspends top officials over staffers’ ‘collaboration’ with Russia

CNN By CNN’s Tim Lister and Mariya Knight Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended two important figures in his government, questioning their leadership qualities and accusing many of their subordinates of treason and collaborating with Russia. The two high-ranking officials — Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and State Security Service (SBU) head Ivan Bakanov, a long-time

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Texas state rep Dustin Burrows speaks at a press conference in Uvalde

5 key takeaways from the Uvalde shooting report and video revealing failures in law enforcement response

By Emma Tucker, Shimon Prokupecz, Dakin Andone and Peter Nickeas, CNN In the first comprehensive look by a government agency into the Uvalde elementary school massacre, a Texas House investigative committee released a preliminary report Sunday outlining a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies in their response at the scene. The 77-page “interim

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